diff --git a/website/internals.php b/website/internals.php
index 10a4d0c..a07f3fd 100755
--- a/website/internals.php
+++ b/website/internals.php
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ class Config {
         $this->mysql_password = $config_array["mysql"]["pass"];
         $this->mysql_db_name  = $config_array["mysql"]["db_name"];
         $this->data_folder    = $config_array["general"]["data_folder"];
+        $this->slack_webhook  = $config_array["general"]["slack_webhook"];
     }
 }
 
@@ -39,6 +40,33 @@ function init_database()
     mysql_select_db($config->mysql_db_name) or die("ERROR: " . mysql_error());
 }
 
+// (string) $message - message to be passed to Slack
+// (string) $room - room in which to write the message, too
+// (string) $icon - You can set up custom emoji icons to use with each message
+function slack($message, $room = "engineering", $icon = ":longbox:")
+{
+	global $config;
+
+	$room = ($room) ? $room : "engineering";
+	$data = "payload=" . json_encode(array(
+			#"channel"       =>  "#{$room}",
+			"text"          =>  $message,
+			"icon_emoji"    =>  $icon
+		));
+   
+	// You can get your webhook endpoint from your Slack settings
+	$url = $config->slack_webhook;
+	$ch = curl_init();
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
+	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+	$result = curl_exec($ch);
+	curl_close($ch);
+   
+	return $result;
+}
+
 function username()
 {
     if (!isset($_SESSION['persona']))
diff --git a/website/style.css b/website/style.css
index 52c0903..fe37399 100755
--- a/website/style.css
+++ b/website/style.css
@@ -75,11 +75,12 @@ h1 {
 }
 
 #navcontainer {
- padding-top: 360px;
+ padding-top: 120px;
  display: inline;
- position: absolute;
+ position: fixed;
  margin-left: -20px;
  left: 0;
+ height: 100%;
 }
 
 .menu {
@@ -110,13 +111,13 @@ h1 {
 
 #about {
  display: none;
- margin-left: 250px;
+ margin-left: 350px;
  width: 700px;
 }
 
 #breakdown {
  display: none;
- margin-left: 250px;
+ margin-left: 350px;
  width: 700px;
 }